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In the song, a little boy is outside playing baseball by himself, saying, "I'm the greatest player," and tosses the ball up in the air to hit the ball and swings and misses. The boy repeats this two more times. As his mother calls him inside for supper, the undeterred boy, in a twist ending, reveals his position—pitcher—and thus by earning a strikeout, he is still the greatest. In another twist, the young boy in the song's video is Eli Bishop who grew up to be a fiddle player in the Grand Ole Opry Band. When songwriter Don Schlitz performs the song on the Opry, he frequently introduces Eli to the audience.
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